I can't believe I'm back on this site due to Stardew mods. Main interests: lore, theories and headcanons about Stardew Valley and it's mods. Current obsessions: Mr. Qi and Lance from SVE.
(Technically the image is from a picrew, but it got deleted at some point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Basics:
late 20's - early 30's
really tall and slender
vary pale, to the point where he looks unhealthy and corpse-like
soft wavy hair that won't sit in any way no matter how much he tries
pitch black hair and eyes (eyes so dark you can't distinguish the pupil from the iris)
as he'll start controlling his magic better his hair will start to turn purple from the tips up and his eyes will start getting purple flecks until they completely change colours (but that will be decades after moving to the valley)
Detailed backstory:
Thad moved in the valley after causing massive chaos both at Joja and the Ministry. (Not his fault, he did exactly what he was told to do.) Not that the townspeople know that, or anything about him, really. He lives alone deep in the woods and visits the town rarely. Despite that they consider him a helpful and cheerful neighbour. He's a good listener but will carefully avoid saying anything about himself. He also pays really close attention to everything that goes around him, has a really good memory and will dig through everyone's personal objects, but most people haven't figured out that yet. (Old habits die hard.) He's very curious and always down to try or learn new things.
Had a mutually beneficial deal with the Ministry while working at Joja - they help him get out of there while he helps them investigate if Joja is illegally messing with magic. (Of course they were.) An agreement everyone at the Ministry ended up regretting after it was revealed that multiple mages from the Ministry were secretly helping Joja. Part of the reason the situation in the Badlands got out of control this horribly was because everyone at the Ministry was busy with the fallout of the newly discovered corruption within their ranks. They also regretted getting Thad out in general, since they're pretty sure he's not even human any longer, but Thad considers it payback for forcing him to work at Joja in the first place.
He and Magnus already know each other since it was Magnus who 'hired' him to help with the Ministry's investigation. (Magnus is also now responsible with keeping Thad from messing with magic too, but everyone already know that's not going to happen in a depressed acceptance kind of way.) Every mage and adventurer knows about him and about the whole mess, and a few blame him directly for all the paperwork and investigations they had to go through.
His presence in the Valley causes weird things to happen due to his contradictory and unstable magic - life/forest and void/death. (Qi and Grandpa are to blame for the odd combination.) He has trouble using his magic because of it. Ever since he moved to Pelican Town dark magic is starting to get stronger, monster are more agressive and more likely to breed and leave the mines, and dark creatures almost unheard of before have been spotted in the woods. But nature and forest magic are also getting stronger - plants grow faster and healthier, rare or nearly extinct animals are starting to thrive, pollution is disappearing or at least affecting the environement less, and magical creatures that were droved away by humans and especially by Joja are tentatively moving back into the Valley, like junimos and fairies. (This means lots of interesting research opportunities but also lots of extra worry for the already overworked Ministry/Order members.)
Like his magic, Thad has a very contradictory and changing personality, but keeps most of it hidden (despite seemingly having no filter). He doesn't trust people and never opens up. He's generally mocking and sarcastic in a playful way, doesn't take anything seriously and always wastes his time instead of working. Very smug and annoying, will start fights by saying things people don't want or need to hear. Doesn't apologize or regrets what he's done no matter how bad the situation gets, he'll always choose to double down instead of backing off. But he can also be surprisingly calm and obedient. His personality changes fast, sometimes within minutes, and makes predicting his reactions hard. Which is a problem since he has violent tendencies, especially when his dark magic is stronger than the forest one. Gets along weirdly well with Lance, who's often called to calm him down or get him out of some place.
He has lots of animalstic and inhuman traits or behaviours, like making weird noises, especially when talking with other supernatural beings, smelling magic more than feeling it, and his eyes sometimes glow in the dark like a cat's. Also lots of horror-like traits, like his face sometimes looking wrong when someone is watching him from the corner of their eyes or looking at his reflection, but normal when they look directly at him. (He's not aware that this happens and doesn't understand why people suddenly react weird to him when he's not doing anything.) He died while working at Joja and his body sometimes forgets he's alive again, so randomly he'll stop breathing or won't have a pulse. (He's not aware of that either and doesn't feel it, his magic just takes over until his organs start working again.)
His farm and house are full of void creatures, spirits, junimos and other weird beings, most invisible even to other magic users. They feed off his magic and help him with his chores in exchange. Really doesn't get along with Isaac (or most adventurers/mages really). Has been banned multiple times from Castle Village already. (But they have to let him back because he's the only one who can safely fight in the Badlands. He's very annoying and smug every time they call him back, and generally gets banned immediately after he's done with cleaning the Badlands.)
There's too much information here with no context to help me digest it! I got infodumped on but in the vagueliest way possible D:
Why are there like three Hells now? Plus a mini-Hell made by expelled devils... Are the Arbors a (former) part of Hell, since roses and mirrors are their thing? It did say that they separated from something bigger. Or at least that that something separated from them.
If Hell and the Fourth City were the two big powers in the Neath then what happened to Hell? Civil war, since the text mentions rebels and different factions? I mean London falling couldn't've taken out both Old Hell and the Fourth City at the same time, right?
I do know at least what happened to the Fourth City. But I don' know why. I thought the Bazaar summons another city when the previous one becomes ruins for whatever reason, kinda like changing batteries when one runs out. But it seems the Fourth City was still populated and active when London got dumped on its head. Was it because Hell was starting to infiltrate it? I actually don't know what's the relation between Hell and the Bazaar. I seemed they were getting along in some capacity since they worked together to burn some church books. But the last two cities were pretty hostile to Hell, 'specially London lol.
Or was the city simply getting too uppity? Is this how the Bazaar deals with things? Just dump an even bigger city on top of the previous one and call it a day? London is pretty big, what would be next? Throwing current day New York at it? And are actually all cities in the same spot? I assumed their ruins are scattered across the Neath. But the Fourth City is below London, and other roman city is too since you can see some brickwork in the sewers. Can I reach them all from the Embassy by just walking lower and lower underground? So what else is in this continental wide cavern since apparently it's not the old cities? I mean apparently another whole continent, but that brings even more questions about geography, what counts as a continent underground?
And what happened to the people and devils in the Fourth City? Probably not (all) dead yeah? So, are they still down there? I checked Ladybones Road after finally helping my devil friend to see if there's anything new there and half of the game's lore jumped me!
And then there's the snake and spider motif that keep popping up. Snakes at least are also associate with Arbor, but the spiders are much more ominous. Like, where do sorrow spiders come from? And what are flaming dreams? I only got the mirror ones 😭
Considering this is the first time I'm even hearing about mithridacy, yah fair. So the Fourth City was from Asia Minor then?
Oh I just remembered- does anyone have a list of the known items on Dante's menu? Or at least a healthy guess of what a 1890s devil-owned grill would have? I need it for later.
I know there's Deviled Kidneys and Moss Balls (if I'm remembering that bit of Light Fingers correctly).
I got if before but I didn't had any favors with Hell so I discarded it. In the meantime I grinded the shit out of my 20% something shadowy chance at the Carnival and managed to get 6 favors! :D (now it's a 32% chance, progress!)
Well, turns out I misremembered and I also need renown but I can't grind new renown because I now have 7 favors so I need to use some favors but the only way I know to do it is one single card that lets me use Hell favor and I think I need to get it twice to get enough renown so..... I'm not any closer to helping this dude. Oooops.
I don't have yet access to Hell's embassy, either my watchful is too low or there are other conditions I don't meet. Maybe that would help. Or maybe not, who knows!
But! I now also have a new house plant!
My devil friend can crash at my place near the probably flesh eating plant and that rat that took over my bedroom, while chatting with that urchin that occasionally spends the night with me. I'd say I'm the best tenant ever but I'm not even paying rent...
Depression might unironically just get better if you're younger than 30. Like on its own. I got a horrible anxiety when I entered high school (we changed house and my grandpa died around the same time plus hormones), like I was spending hours doing nothing but imagining all sorts of horrible scenarios without moving. Borderline catatonic. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, anything more than plain bread would make me throw up.
I lost a huge amount of weight, to the point where my parents forced me to go to a doctor who accused me of being anorexic (apparently you know all girls want to starve themselves for fashion or something) but like not the disorder kind, the type that a proud young girl gets without having any mental issues just because???? Good old Balkans.
Then I started being suicidal (in hindsight I wasn't 'truly' suicidal as much as I was emotionally exhausted after years of severe anxiety). I finally told my mom and she asked: 'What will you do later when life is even harder than now? You're a kid, you don't know how shit life gets'. Dunno, jump of a window? Who asks this when someone confesses that they want to jump off the building they live in? Why not just kill myself now if there's nothing better later? Funnily enough this absurd question somehow broke through my depression because I couldn't wrap my head around it. Like, I wouldn't say this shit to a stranger, let alone a family member (let alone my child).
Anyway, the point of the post. Basically magically, after I turned 25, and barely clinged on to existence all these years out of pure fear of death, my anxiety just started to disappear. Part of it was time, you can't worry about the same topics for years without your brain going 'But if this disastrous scenario didn't happen after five years, maybe it won't happen at all' and partially it was hormones. My menstruation mostly calmed down, my pimples mostly started to disappear, and my anxiety started to vanish on its own, and with it my depression and suicidal thoughts.
This is probably not a special thing, but the Botanical Garden in Bucharest has a pond full or turtles. When you visit you can see them on the logs thrown in the pond, on the tree stumps that are there since the Garden was created and on the stones placed around the pond. And since the weather has been getting warmer and warmer they'll spend more time out on the logs before burrowing in the mud to hibernate.
There's also at least one fox there, I managed to glimpse it once while I was looking at snails and dragonflies ❤️
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
Hi, so I was wondering if you could do the SDV bachelors with a farmer who has a strong physique, you know? Not only because of their work on the farm, but also because they served in the army before, you can add Kent as well if you want (in a platonic way, of course).
Hey hey 👋 Sure thing, and I'll add Kent in a platonic way! Thanks for the ask, and have a good day 💕✨
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Shane:
Shane didn’t pay any attention to Farmer or their physical appearance at first; he ignored them as best he could, preoccupied as he was with his own worries and drinking at the Saloon.
Until some pathetic conflict arose between them, where Shane flat-out refused to move so that Farmer could pass. For that, Shane was picked up by them and set aside, as if he weighed a couple of grapes. He’s actually heavy, what the heck.
As their friendship slowly grew, only then did the chicken man notice how solid their build was. And from what the others had said (he wasn’t eavesdropping, it’s just that everyone’s been talking about Farmer since day one), they’d already arrived that way. The army, huh? Well, constant training and all that, so it’s no surprise.
When, at that pivotal moment, Farmer picked Shane up as if he were a feather and rushed toward the clinic at the speed of light, Shane felt so calm and cozy in their strong arms before falling asleep. For a moment, he felt better.
“You have no taste in men, you know...” For those words, Shane was quickly lifted into his partner/spouse’s arms, listening to a whole wave of compliments and love pouring over him. He loves it when he’s so close to Farmer, in their strong arms, even though he playfully protests that he doesn’t like it (Farmer knows that’s not true, heh.)
Alex:
Wow, look at those muscles! This new farmer is definitely in great shape! Did Alex just say that out loud? Oh well, never mind. But still, in great shape!
Literally the very next day, when Farmer and Alex met in Pelican Town, the athlete immediately started asking the new resident, whom he barely knew, all about their workouts and diet. Partly out of admiration, partly out of a twinge of envy, because he’s working hard, but he still has a ways to go before he can match Farmer’s results.
Farmer started chatting with him about their time in the army, making sure to explain the exercises they did, what to do, and what not to do to avoid nasty injuries. And so, day after day, they and Alex slowly began to grow closer.
Does Farmer know that they’ve become participants in practically every competition with Alex, from races to see who’s faster to arm wrestling? No? Well, they’ll find out, because Alex will invite them over very often. At the same time, Alex will be amazed at just how strong Farmer is and will become more frequent visitors to the clinic, because Farmer accidentally dislocated Alex’s arm during one of these competitions.
Every time Alex catches his partner/spouse in the workout room, effortlessly lifting a heavy barbell and looking at him invitingly and flirtatiously, Alex’s heart skips a beat and his cheeks flush. Damn, they’re so strong, and beautiful…
Sebastian:
Sebastian was lying on the platform, working on his motorcycle as usual, when almost the entire sky was obscured by the shadow of a muscular stranger looming menacingly right above him. He would have been genuinely terrified if it hadn’t been for the kind features of the face he could make out. Oh, right, a new farmer was supposed to be coming to town…
Considering that Sebby himself was rather slight of build, Farmer, in comparison, was built like a brick house. Their biceps probably had more power than all of Sebby’s muscles combined.
At the very least because Sebastian’s motorcycle turned out to be no heavier than a feather to Farmer when they offered to help carry the broken vehicle into the garage.
Farmer told their friend that in the army, they’d had to haul much heavier loads during training and on the battlefield against Gotoro. Sebastian couldn’t even imagine that they’d had to carry anything heavier than his 200-kg bike, marveling at both their bravery and their physiques.
When Sebby was caught off guard by a monster in the Mines, Farmer, who had come to his aid, kicked the monster away from their boyfriend/husband with a single powerful kick, after which they, scolding their beloved a little, wrapped their strong arms around a slightly flushed Sebastian and carried him home without any trouble to tend to his wounds.
Elliott:
Oh, there they are — the new resident everyone has been talking about! Elliott is happy to finally meet them and extends his hand in greeting… which immediately starts to hurt, because Farmer misjudged their strength and shook Elliott’s hand too hard. Ouch...
No big deal, there were no breaks or dislocations, so Farmer shouldn’t feel guilty toward the writer! Although… if they insist, he wouldn’t mind having lunch with them at the Saloon and getting to know each other better.
That’s how Elliott found out that Farmer had served in the army before coming here, and the writer can’t help but note how Farmer made bold decisions. From office clerk to soldier and now — to farmer. Well, knowledge of bookkeeping and a strong body certainly will help in their new agricultural profession.
The way they effortlessly chopped huge logs for firewood, such strong hands, such— Oh! Uh, he wasn’t staring! He just wanted to invite Farmer to his new book, and, well… (Oh, merciful Yoba…)
When Elliott asked his dearest partner/spouse to help him get that beautiful, juice-filled pomegranate from a high branch, he never expected that his strong Farmer, instead of climbing the tree, would lift Elliott up! And without much effort, at that. Not that the writer minds — he likes being held in the strong arms of his beloved person~
Harvey:
Apart from Robin and Lewis, Harvey was the first person the newly arrived Farmer met on the first day, shaking the doctor’s hand in a friendly manner. He was slightly startled, as the stranger’s sturdy build had caught him off guard.
It can sometimes be... a bit difficult for the doctor to examine Farmer during routine checkups. No, it’s not Farmer’s fault — in fact, they’re healthy and in great shape, so everything goes quickly and smoothly. It’s just that when Harvey needs to listen to their breathing and Farmer takes off their shirt... Ahem! “You're healthy, you can go.”
It got even more complicated when they joined the Guild and went to the Mines almost every day, later visiting Harvey and showing him a fresh wound on their muscular body. “Stay professional...”
From small, Harvey learned that Farmer had previously served in the army, which explained their good physical conditioning (and some old scars). Still, Harvey always advises his patient and good friend to take care of themself.
He had been searching unsuccessfully for a hazelnut cracker for about twenty minutes, and when he turned to his partner/spouse for help, the smiling Farmer simply replied that no cracker was needed and began using their strong fingers to squeeze the nuts, pulling out the kernels one by one. In the past, Harvey would have worried that they’d hurt their fingers doing that, but he knows just how strong Farmer is, so he doesn’t worry and gratefully accepts the hazelnuts.
Sam:
Wow, the new resident is built like a tank! Oops, did Sam say that out loud? Sorry, it's just… Well, like seriously, look at the new Farmer.
At first, he thought Farmer was an athlete or just followed a workout and diet schedule, but military service also explains their physique. At least, Sam's dad, who had recently returned from the army, once shared the schedule of his daily workouts in the barracks, which the musician considered incredibly grueling for anyone.
Sam once visited Farmer to pick up the pumpkin they’d promised for Jodi… But no one had told him that a “slightly larger pumpkin” would be three meters tall and weigh as much as the old mayor’s pickup truck. And he was even more surprised when Farmer decided to help him with the crop, picking up the giant vegetable with ease and carrying it toward Pelican Town.
The poor musician didn’t know what to do with himself and offered to help in any way he could, but Farmer just replied that they could handle it on their own. They’re so strong... And why is Farmer carrying the weight, but Sam’s cheeks are red as tomatoes?...
“Honey, aren’t you afraid that’s too much weight for your shoulders?” Of course not — has Sammy forgotten just how strong their partner/spouse is? They’ve carried him on their shoulders before without even breaking a sweat; why should there be any difficulties this time?
Bonus: Kent (platonic)
Hah, Kent might have sworn he’d seen Farmer somewhere… Though, that’s unlikely; he’s probably just confusing them with someone else. He’s started mistaking strangers’ faces for those of people he knows…
Do they know him? The army? Oh, right — so they both served in the same unit, but hardly ever crossed paths. It’s surprising that Farmer was even able to remember Kent after just a couple of encounters.
In great shape, by the way. They know better than anyone what the training is like there. Even after returning to Stardew Valley, Kent still gets up at five in the morning out of habit and does his exercises. Although Farmer might replace that with lugging around huge sacks of seeds.
Kent doesn’t really want to compete with Farmer in a strength contest, to be honest. He’s just... not up to it right now. Farmer understands him perfectly, right?
While relaxing on Ginger Island beach, as soon as Kent and Farmer took off their clothes and changed into swimsuits, their spouses (Jodi and Farmer’s lover) began devouring their muscular partners with their eyes and whispering to each other, giggling and sipping cocktails. Farmer and Kent’s cheeks flushed slightly, but they didn’t miss the chance to show off their bodies to their loved ones. Kent even forgot his sad thoughts for a while.
If the Farmer has been in the army then they are very familiar with medical checkups... so Harvey declaring them healthy too fast out of panic has been definitely noticed by them!
I got if before but I didn't had any favors with Hell so I discarded it. In the meantime I grinded the shit out of my 20% something shadowy chance at the Carnival and managed to get 6 favors! :D (now it's a 32% chance, progress!)
Well, turns out I misremembered and I also need renown but I can't grind new renown because I now have 7 favors so I need to use some favors but the only way I know to do it is one single card that lets me use Hell favor and I think I need to get it twice to get enough renown so..... I'm not any closer to helping this dude. Oooops.
I don't have yet access to Hell's embassy, either my watchful is too low or there are other conditions I don't meet. Maybe that would help. Or maybe not, who knows!
But! I now also have a new house plant!
My devil friend can crash at my place near the probably flesh eating plant and that rat that took over my bedroom, while chatting with that urchin that occasionally spends the night with me. I'd say I'm the best tenant ever but I'm not even paying rent...
was visiting a friend who has a farm, and one of the chickens has a home made flared cone on, so i asked what was up with that and she said "that's diesel, and she's suicidal" so obviously i went ??? and she pressed the door lock on her truck fob so the truck beeped, and this dumbass bird SPRINTED full tilt across the garden to shove her head in the tailpipe. she has to be locked up and coned so she doesn't gulp down toxic fumes direct from the pipe for some idiot bird reason. she is obsessed with doing this and has to be locked up any time someone is using a vehicle.
i told her i posted about this and she has an update (which i guess content warning for animal harm [the animal did it to it's damn fool self])
she found this out the first time when she auto-started her truck to warm it up before work one below-freezing morning and came out ~5 minutes later to find (the then unnamed) diesel with her head stuffed in the tail pipe hanging limply by her idiot neck and thought that she was dead, ran over and pulled her out, and the chicken went "oh hi! anyways mind if i get back in there?" and did it a-fucking-gain??
best guess is bc she feeds her chickens with a pvc gravity pipe like this
and despite having ~40 other chickens who don't fuck this up, diesel went "food comes from tubes, this is tube, ∴ this is the ~secret~ food hole that the others do not know about. i will be rewarded with golden seed for being the cleverest of them all :)" and is now on 24/7 vehicle related suicide watch. fine line between docile and dumb sometimes.
